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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pentius" data-source="post: 5688006" data-attributes="member: 6676736">No worries.  But as such, I didn't play a paladin.  Not during my 1e years, not during my 3e years, not until 4e.  Which is a shame, because it's one of my absolute favorite character archetypes.When I say I don't want mechanical restrictions, I'm not saying I want to play a paladin like a lawless thug.  I'm saying it's my character, it's my connection to the divine, its my code, and I don't want to lose it because the DM and I didn't see eye to eye on something.  I'm saying I've never seen the mechanical restrictions, in play, actually force good roleplaying out of someone who wouldn't have done it otherwise.  I've only seen people that were going to roleplay their paladin valorously anyway, and thus didn't really need the mechanical code, or that were only following the code begrudgingly, in order to get more power, and even if that makes them follow it, it doesn't produce satisfactory roleplay, imo.Conversely, what I have seen the codes do, is allow situations where a player is doing what he is quite certain is the right thing and he falls, because he and his DM disagreed on the particulars of the alignment.Neither having nor excluding fall mechanics stops dicks from being dicks, but I've only seen one of the two smack down decent players in the attempt.  I'll take the other.</blockquote>